Del Carmen’s film also earned the 88th Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Animated Feature.

Del Carmen, one of the Pinoys at Pixar (Pixnoy), co-directed with Pete Docter the Golden Globe winning film about a young girl’s inner emotions. The animator describes the film as a “unique and courageous” movie.

The migrant Filipino who grew up in Cavite also wrote the screenplay that earned the Oscar nomination.